Choral, India (composer)
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Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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Songs of Orpheus
RecommendedMonteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Brunelli, Castello, Cima, Landi
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Sulayman’s approach tends more towards the lyrical than the rhetorical – his lucid, velvety tenor and pop-star charisma best suited to melodious arias rather than the text-driven stile recitativo…Under... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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She soars the heights and plumbs the depths with fitting ardour...it is hard not to be swept away by such intensity felt and highly dramatic readings...[Pitzl] and his crack instrumental ensemble... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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It seems to me that they have taken time to properly hit their stride, but here they rediscover the heights scaled with Claudio Cavina at the helm. These are near-flawless readings, effortlessly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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La bella piu bella
Songs from early baroque Italy
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Craig Marchitelli (archlute & theorbo)
This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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[Mameli] provides an object lesson in how vocal precision need not inhibit passionate commitment. Her clarity and response to the texts is exceptional: the first phrase of Caccini’s Dolcissimo... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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The northern and southern Italian madrigal traditions meet in the person of Sigismondo d'India. The date of publication of this, his FirstBook of Madrigals (1606) reveals him to be one of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2001, Editor's Choice
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Cappella Mediterranea sing and play with assertive Mediterranean heat...The emotional tension is incredible...If your blood doesn’t race during the opener by the madrigal master Monteverdi,... —
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Building a Library, November 2016, First Choice
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Special offer. Songs for Courtiers and Cavaliers
Helen Watts (contralto), Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Philomusica of London
An intriguing record of the roots of historically-informed performance, Helen Watts and Desmond Dupré give passionate but (by today’s standards) heavy-handed accounts. —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Collectionneur
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Dolci Miei Sospiri - Arie Antiche
Works by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Dowland, Caccini, Jones, Handel & Carissimi
William Matteuzzi (tenor)
Munchner Barocksolisten, Hans Ludwig Hirsch
